Re: What age do you think children can consent?

So you may not be directly responsible for someone else's crimes, but if everyone simply ignored the bad stuff that could happen in favor of getting more freedoms for themselves and those in their circle, then there'd be a lot more crime.

Extremely dubious. In the Western and East Asian countries, where there are the best and longest stat compiling; you can see already more than a century of both increasing personal freedoms and decreasing crime. Franklin really spotted a dichotomy.